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Adding a few new offerings to my old miniprint collection post and updating the listing in my shop! I'm currently doing 3 for 5€, 5 for 7€, or 10 for 10€. (Due to increasingly complicated issues with shipping that no one seems interested in sorting out (???) I'm restricting shipping options on ko-fi to within Europe for the moment, but as usual am looking out for possible solutions...within the limits of affordability.)

In other news, I've got just a little over 50 followers before my next follower milestone, which means I'll be announcing my fourth print giveaway most likely by the end of the summer!

#to be clear the regular post here hasn't allowed merchandise to be sent to the states for almost a year #last time i went to the post office here in france i had to argue with the employee to be allowed to send my tax forms to the states. hello #linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #miniprints

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Combining a Dennis Price birthday portrait and the occasional Jeeves linocut I have to make for my continued mental health and well-being.

#happy birthday dennis 🥰🤪#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #dennis price #jeeves #the world of wooster #fanart #portrait

I made this mini patch in ~2021 after carving a few kid pix icons (the oh no! guy, question mark, stamp, and...something else I can't remember) and I'd love to remake this or some other pixel icons/symbols at a larger size so it actually looks cool!

#what was i doing making this tayny tayny print in 2021 🤔#give it a couple years mate...#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking

B6-sized praying mantis 🙏

#someday i'll be able to get the colours in my prints to look nice in photos :)#not today tho.#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #praying mantis #insects

I love the anatomical studies you've printed. Speaking as someone who has struggled their way through carving a few reproduced surgery illustrations, is there a technique (or tool, or resource) that made crosshatching easier for you? I feel like mine tends to devolve into irregular specks rather than neat shading.

Hey really sorry I forgot to reply to your ask which must be at least a month old...

I think the main thing that made the difference between my first attempt and the more recent 'bones of the hand' one is the original design itself (even though they're both Vesalius woodcuts) because the hatching works with the shape of bones better than it does the shape of brains, so it looks more consistent and easier to read anyway.

Technique-wise, it's definitely beyond my skill level to reproduce that level of detail and naturalistic linework that makes some woodblock prints look like ink illustrations, so with this one I was careful to redraw the crosshatching on the lino in a more rigid and delineated way to give myself a bit of a chance.

I used a V-tool for all the hatching which I think is best, because you can tell which direction you're carving in if you need to take a break or rotate the block a lot, and you get a triangle shape when you chip out the negative spaces, which gives a better illusion of the usual diamond-shaped negative spaces in crosshatching. Basically, I just tried to carve one row at a time at the same angle, and even if it doesn't line up perfectly, again I think the illusion will be achieved whether or not you can carve everything in a perfect grid (and in this example, if you zoom in on the original you can spot some irregular areas too!)

Thanks so much for the ask and I hope this is helpful in some way!!

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Symmetrical irises from a couple years ago - now in blue!

Followers of this blog will know me as an enjoyer of handmade cotton papers, but this is one of the rare times I had a misprintless experience with a more mid-weight pressed paper.

#this might be my third time posting this one sry #linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #irises #floral #ornamental

New logo for some cards which I'll be taking with me next weekend (6/7 June) to Les Jardins Enchantés in Samois-sur-Seine. This will be my first expo/market in France (or anywhere, actually) so I've spent the last month finalising editions and sorting out pricing and packaging!

#i've been so stressed about preparing stuff that i keep forgetting to be stressed about having to speak french in public all weekend #linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #logo #business card

Trout & Pike on some scraps of blue Lokta, which will soon be added to my miniprint collection. I wanted to see if my Pfeil tool could still be used when in desperate need of professional sharpening and the answer is: it's doing its best. I have a 12/1 and 11/0.5 that have practically ceased to function despite regular attentions with strop and polishing compound, so it's just been me and that red speedball thing against the world for well over a year.

Shoutout to the little brace of new followers I got after my recent lily of the valley print!

#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #fish #trout #pike

Can't believe I haven't posted a new symmetrical print for over 6 months! What's going on??

Lily of the valley in black and green, on 21cm square natural Lokta.

#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #floral #ornamental #lily of the valley

Earlier this month I said I'd make a pattern mockup of this rose print - ultimately it does look pretty good if I say so myself, but not quite good enough to show you what it looks like without the little margin between the prints! Anyway, for a first attempt at designing a pattern block, the result is alright with me.

#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #patterns #arts and crafts #william morris #roses #floral #maybe the whole concept of wanting to make a functional pattern block that i never intend to use for pattern-making is a bit odd #but....it's an Exercise

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Oak galls & acorns on light green lokta paper, pair of prints made for a still-in-progress quilting project with my partner.

#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #oak leaves #acorns #oak galls

Design inspired by the 1870's William Morris 'Rambling Rose' wallpaper pattern (not actually a study for once). I worked the pattern out by hand, and obviously there's much that can go wrong between sketching, transferring, and carving, so it will be interesting to see whether everything matches up properly!

#once it's dry enough to scan i'm going to test it digitally #i could do it on paper/fabric but don't really want to get rid of the border...#plus i'm too lazy to print this a hundred times on a piece of fabric whether it looks good or not #linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #patterns #arts and crafts #william morris #roses #floral

1840's fashions from Histoire du costume by Henny Harald Hansen, which is an excellent reference book with sources from ancient Egypt to the 1950's.

I haven't been posting much over the past couple months but have plenty of work to show for it, so I'll do my best to get back on it!

#...they're gay btw #linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #historical fashion #fashion illustration #histoire du costume

Another De humani corporis fabrica study, printed on A5-size Lokta paper - a couple years on from the last one I can definitely see improvement in my cross-hatching work!

#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #anatomical art #anatomy #vesalius #de humani corporis fabrica #i've noticed that my anatomical prints just don't do very well on here for some reason. not complaining merely observing #obviously i haven't let that stop me from posting them regularly haha

Postcard-sized Hound linocut from the end of last year, designed by @ghostbees and carved by myself. I've just printed an edition of 20 on some of my remaining pages from The Hound of the Baskervilles and a few of the other Holmes stories where dogs are featured, and I think they turned out so well against the text background!

#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #the hound of the baskervilles #sherlock holmes #catch me avoiding the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted...

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Swan linocut based off a tile design by William de Morgan and printed on my beloved blue Lokta paper.

#why aren't you making it to the pageant?!#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #william de morgan #arts and crafts #tile design #swan

Just a thought...

Finally used up the endpapers of an old journal that I saved years ago because I knew the texture would be great to print on!

#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #transgender #trans #trans art #typography

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